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AGENDA: Third Annual WRF-GRAPES Modeling Workshop

Tuesday 18 January 2005

9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks and introduction (Greg Holland/Jishan Xue)
9:15 – 9:35 Overview of WRF development (Joe Klemp)
9:35 – 9:55 Overview of GRAPES development (Dehui Chen)
9:55 – 10:15 Impact study of mass and height vertical coordinates with WRF (Dehui Chen)
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 10:50 Spectral analysis of WRF simulations (Bill Skamarock)
10:50– 11:10 Progresses of GRAPES dynamical core since 2003 (Xueshun Shen)
11:10 – 12:00 Open discussion on dynamic cores
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 – 1:50 WRF physics updates (Jimy Dudhia)
1:50 – 2:10 Numerical experiments of GRAPES physics package and case studies (Jian Sun)
2:10 – 2:30 Recent progress in land-surface modeling (Fei Chen)
2:30 – 2:50 Parallelization algorithm of GRAPES-WRF (Zhiyan Jin)
2:50 – 3:10 WRF nesting and parallelization (John Michalakes)
3:10 – 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 – 3:50 On the development of GRAPES global version (Xuesheng Yang)
3:50 – 4:10 Some consideration for developing a global WRF (Bill Skamarock)
4:10 – 5:00 Open discussion on physics, model evaluation, software architecture and global modeling
5:00 – 6:00 Reception

Wednesday 19 January 2005

9:00 – 9:20 On the GRAPES unified 3DVAR and its experimental application (Shiyu Zhuang)
9:20 – 9:40 Development of WRF unified 3DVAR system (Dale Barker)
9:40 – 10:00 Impacts of satellite data by using GRAPES_3DVAR and development of EnKF in CNPR (Jishan Xue)
10:00 – 10:20 WRF-based EnKF assimilation (Chris Snyder)
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00 Doppler radar data assimilation using GRAPES 3DVAR (Qilin Wan)
11:00 – 11:15 WRF radar data assimilation: 3D-Var OSSE experiments (Jenny Sun)
11:15 – 11:30 Doppler radar data assimilation using WRF 3DVAR and its application to Typhoon Rusa (2002) case (Qingnong Xiao)
11:30 – 11:45 Development of WRF 4DVAR framework (Hans Huang)
11:45 – 12:00 Development of the adjoint model for WRF (Qingnong Xiao)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 Open discussion on data assimilation
2:30 – 2:50 Application of GRAPES in typhoon track prediction (Yihong Duan - presented by another GRAPES scientist)
2:50 – 3:10 Use of WRF in storm-scale NWP (Morris Weisman)
3:10 – 3:30 Application of WRF in hurricane prediction (Wei Wang)
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee break
3:45 – 5:00 Wrap-up discussion
5:00 Meeting adjourn